Fear not, “Switched at Birth” fans: The Season 4 finale of the show next week won’t be the last one.

ABC Family has renewed the show for a fifth season, five days before the fourth-season finale on Monday. A return date hasn’t been set, but the channel it airs on will be called Freeform when it does.

“Every season ‘Switched at Birth’ continues to deliver fresh, relatable storylines that tackle important social issues, reflecting what our audience experiences daily,” says Karey Burke, head of programming at ABC Family. “We’re excited to see where [creator] Lizzy [Weiss] will take these characters next.”

Monday’s episode of “Switched at Birth” drew a 0.4 rating in adults 18-49 and 952,000 viewers in the same-day ratings.

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Discovery is bringing one of its signature shows, “MythBusters,” to a close in 2016.

The show embarks on its 14th season in January, and that will be the end of the line, the cable channel says. The final season premieres Jan. 9.

On the upside, co-host and executive producer Adam Savage tells EW (which broke the story) that he and fellow host/EP Jamie Hyneman have been preparing for a big sendoff. The show will choose “the most awesome example” of each type of myth it’s tackled in the past in the final episodes.

“MythBusters” premiered in 2003 and will have more than 260 episodes under its belt by the time it wraps. The show’s library will move to Discovery’s sister network Science Channel, which will feature a series-long marathon starting Dec. 23.

The cable channel has canceled “Defiance” after three seasons. The decision comes just a few days after Syfy pulled the plug on “Dominion” as well.

Like “Dominion,” “Defiance” was a victim of ratings declines. The show’s same-day adults 18-49 average for Season 3 was 0.25, down more than 40 percent from the previous season’s 0.46. Still, at 1.1 million viewers, it had been the channel’s most-watched drama.

“‘Defiance’ was a truly groundbreaking series, delivering an immersive, cross-platform experience that transcended the television screen in a way that viewers had never seen before,” Syfy says in a statement. “We are incredibly proud of the work of the extraordinary cast, writers, artists and designers — and especially showrunner Kevin Murphy — who together brought the rich world of ‘Defiance’ to life over its three-season arc.”

Murphy, for his part, is looking at the positive side of the experience: “I got to collaborate with a group of stunning artists operating at the top of their game, and together we built a world. Because of that, there is no room for anything other than joy in my heart.”

With “Haven,” “Continuum” and “Lost Girl” also leaving the schedule this year, Syfy has a nearly blank slate of scripted shows. ” It did pick up “12 Monkeys” for a second season and is continuing to import “Killjoys” from Canada. New shows “The Expanse,” “Magicians” and “Hunters” are on tap for the coming months along with miniseries “Childhood’s End.”

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http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/cable/late-night-ratings-oct-5-9-2015-tonight-show-leads-a-down-week/#respondThu, 15 Oct 2015 20:04:15 +0000http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/?p=478898“The Tonight Show” stayed on top of the late-night rankings for the week of Oct. 5-9, but it was a down week across the board.

“Tonight,” CBS’ “Late Show” and ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” were all down a little from the prior week. NBC’s “Late Night” and CBS’ “Late Late Show” also dipped slightly.

On cable, week 2 of “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” was (unsurprisingly) down some after the hype of his premiere week. The show’s adults 18-49 rating dipped from 0.41 to 0.33.

Late-night charts for the week of Oct. 5-9, and season to date on the broadcast nets, follow.

FX has picked up “Atlanta,” a comedy series created by and starring Donald Glover, for 10 episodes.

The show will star Glover (“Community”) as one of two cousins trying to make it in the Atlanta rap scene. The cast also includes Brian Tyree Henry, Lakeith Lee Stanfield (“Straight Outta Compton”) and Zazie Beetz.

“‘Atlanta’ draws on Donald’s considerable talents as a musician, actor and writer to give us something unique,” FX president of original programming Nick Grad says in a statement. “The story is made all the more powerful by the great cast and the contributions of Donald’s fellow executive producer Paul Simms [‘Girls,’ ‘NewsRadio’ and director Hiro Murai.”

Showtime has picked up “Roadies,” a one-hour comedy created by Cameron Crowe, to series.

The pilot, written and directed by Crowe, has been in the works for some time and will finally premiere in 2016. The show follows the crew that works to mount a rock band’s tour, their relationships and the headaches of life on the road.

“I’ve long wanted to work with J.J. and Winnie, and coming together to tell these stories has been beyond a blast,” Crowe says in a statement. “Showtime has a great track record with music-based projects, and they’ve been wonderful partners.”

No one was predicting that ratings for the first Democratic presidential primary debate would approach the massive audiences for the first two Republican face-offs, and they didn’t.

CNN’s debate did, however, draw a larger-than-expected audience that could set a record for the party.

Tuesday’s forum drew 15.3 million viewers, easily beating the previous high for a Democratic debate. In January 2008, a debate between then-Sen. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on ABC scored 10.7 million viewers. (Only “NCIS” drew more total viewers in primetime Tuesday.)

In the adults 25-54 demographic — the cable news sweet spot — CNN pulled in 4.8 million people, also a high for a Democratic debate.

Though impressive, the ratings for Tuesday’s face-off still fall well short of the huge numbers for the first two Republican primary debates. The first debate on Fox News in August delivered 25 million viewers, and the second on CNN averaged 23 million, in both cases thanks in large part to curiosity about front-runner Donald Trump.

CNN also says that Internet streams of the debate peaked at 980,000, slightly ahead of the 921,000 for its Republican debate on Sept. 16.

Syfy has pulled the plug on its drama series “Dominion” after two seasons.

The news comes two weeks after the show wrapped its second season on Oct. 1, on a decidely not-all-wrapped-up note. Whatever the writers had in store for a third season, however, won’t come to pass.

“Dominion,” a continuation of the 2010 film “Legion,” suffered pretty heavy ratings declines in Season 2. It drew a 0.3 rating in adults 18-49 (same-day), down 47 percent from the first season. Total viewership was also off by more than 40 percent.

“Led by [creator] Vaun Wilmott, the talented cast, producers writers and crew of ‘Dominion’ have done a tremendous job bringing this ambitious, cinematic series to the screen over the past two seasons,” Syfy says in a statement. “We thank them.”

“Dominion” joins these shows in the cancellation afterlife for 2015-16.

The return of two big cable shows — “American Horror Story” and “The Walking Dead” — bumped “Empire” down to third place in the weekly Nielsen Twitter ratings. “AHS: Hotel” and “The Walking Dead” occupy the top two spots for the week of Oct. 5-11.

Keep in mind that Twitter ratings measure only activity on Twitter and do not necessarily correlate to on-air ratings or a show’s chances for renewal.

Nielsen Twitter Ratings for Oct. 5-11, 2015

Weekly Top Ten Series and Specials

Rank

Network

Show

Date

Unique Audience (000s)

Impressions (000s)

Unique Authors (000s)

Tweets (000s)

1

FX

American Horror Story: Hotel

10/7/15

5,414

42,536

303

878

2

AMC

The Walking Dead

10/11/15

5,253

36,250

245

611

3

FOX

Empire

10/7/15

2,778

24,276

114

456

4

ABC

Grey’s Anatomy

10/8/15

1,942

5,140

49

100

5

NBC

Saturday Night Live

10/10/15

1,855

5,229

43

73

6

ABC

Scandal

10/8/15

1,809

10,634

50

204

7

ABC

Dancing With the Stars

10/5/15

1,739

6,900

42

112

8

USA Network

WWE Monday Night RAW

10/5/15

1,573

7,534

37

139

9

The CW

The Vampire Diaries

10/8/15

1,548

4,554

34

104

10

FOX

Scream Queens

10/6/15

1,265

5,333

29

83

Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings Weekly Top Ten lists are ranked by Unique Audience and include four metrics for each of the top Series and Specials episodes.

• Tweets: Tweets ascribed to a linear TV episode.
• Unique Authors: Unique Twitter accounts that have sent at least one Tweet ascribed to a specific TV episode.
• Impressions: The number of times any Tweets ascribed to a TV episode were seen.
• Unique Audience: The total number of distinct Twitter accounts accruing at least one impression of one or more different Tweets ascribed to a TV episode.

It’s been known for some time that Season 4 of “Banshee” would be its last. Cinemax has now set a date for the final run.

The series will return on Jan. 29, 2016. Season 4 will run for eight episodes.

“While we certainly considered returning for a fifth season, I always said that when the story was told, it would be time to move on, and that time has come,” co-creator Jonathan Tropper says in a statement. “I am grateful to Cinemax for making ‘Banshee’ the great success it has been and for supporting our creative decision to wrap things up.”

Eliza Dushku will join the show for the final season as an FBI profiler who joins forces with criminal/sheriff of Banshee, Pa., Lucas Hood (Anthony Starr).